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1) Doll bones
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse.
"[A] fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." —Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two
Present day: When...
"[A] fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." —Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two
Present day: When...
3) The dolls
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Dolls are perfect lovers, perfect companions, perfect killers. Investigative reporter Lila Wallace has covered many crimes of passion in 10 years. But nothing will prepare her for the dark secrets of...The Dolls.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lizzy is scared to start school, so she makes a doll out of an apple from her favorite tree to take with her on the first day and keep her company. Includes instructions for making an apple doll.
Author
Series
Penny (Kevin Henkes) volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 National Book Award Fiction Longlist
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book with a friend or book club
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2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book with a friend or book club
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Description
"The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories...
10) The doll's eye
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The day Hadley discovers the lone glass eye in the empty attic of her new house is the day her life changes forever"--
Author
Series
Doll people volume 4
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families journey far from home"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The house at Cinder Creek hides many secrets. Shelby and Brian Tate have heard heated voices crying out in the night. They've noticed the unsettling way things move around on their own. But the most chilling thing about their new home is the cemetery someone's built out back. The graves are tiny, only big enough for dolls. And the dolls won't stay buried.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Things go awry when Annabelle, a fragile, timid porcelain doll who lies in a Victorian dollhouse, tries to share some of her Christmas traditions with best friend Tiffany, a sturdy, adventurous plastic doll who lives in a modern dollhouse.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
18) Day at the fair
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After Marcella takes a trip to the fair, Raggedy Ann and Andy and the other dolls decide to create their own fair. They ride down slides and play carnival games, but then Raggedy Andy falls out the window! Can Raggedy Ann find a way to save her brother?
19) Jubilee: a novel
Author
Publisher
Black Stone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fancy Nancy's sister, Jojo, has done something really bad and Nancy is livid. Jojo drew a tattoo on Nancy's precious doll. When Mom suggests a fancy doll party to make Nancy feel better, Nancy is excited to accept, but what if the doll drama isn't over?
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